Dependency tracer

[Cindy-Sue Causey]

On 9/26/14, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a good tool that can trace source dependencies given a tree
> containing various directories of source files?
>
> I have a project that has make files with no dependency targets and
> would like to be able to take a particular header and see all the
> files that depend on it, directly or indirectly, and vice-versa.
>
> i'm no make expert, but the way our makefiles are built they are
> virtually incomprehensible without a guru and sometimes even then.


While you're waiting for someone to answer with what I "hear" you
saying you need, I recently tripped over this out there on the Net:

apt-cache showpkg <packageName>

It provides both dependencies and reverse depends in its output..
Maybe there's something there you can use while you're waiting for
other feedback..

Cindy :)

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Cindy-Sue Causey
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